MODELS TO PREDICT THE REMOVAL OF EMERGING MICROPOLLUTANTS FROM WATER BY NOVEL ADSORBENTS IN FIXED-BED COLUMN PROCESSES | EPA G2024 ORD F1

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This EPA grant opportunity, titled "Models to Predict the Removal of Emerging Micropollutants from Water by Novel Adsorbents in Fixed-Bed Column Processes," sits under the agency's Innovative Water Technology Grant Program. The core goal of the program is to speed up the development and real-world use of new water technologies that help solve urgent drinking water problems, including supply, water quality, treatment performance, and security needs. The scope explicitly includes challenges faced by public water systems, communities relying on private wells, and efforts to protect or improve source waters. In practice, this means the EPA is looking for work that moves beyond basic research and helps create tools or approaches that can actually be applied by utilities and other water stakeholders.

The specific focus of this solicitation is on developing, testing, and deploying predictive models for removing emerging micropollutants from water using novel adsorbent materials operated in fixed-bed column processes. Fixed-bed columns are widely used in water treatment because they are practical to run continuously and can be scaled from lab to pilot to full-scale systems. By concentrating on modeling, the EPA is signaling interest in methods that can forecast how well new adsorbents will capture difficult-to-treat contaminants over time, how long a bed will last before breakthrough, and how operational variables might affect performance. The expected outcome is that these models will support the development of innovative drinking water and wastewater treatment processes, helping practitioners design and optimize treatment systems more efficiently and with more confidence when dealing with emerging contaminants.

Funding is expected to support about one project under this announcement. The anticipated award size is up to $1,000,000 in federal funds, making it a relatively substantial single-project investment aimed at producing a meaningful, deployable result rather than a collection of small exploratory studies. The application deadline listed is October 2, 2024. The opportunity is a discretionary grant (not a formula award), meaning proposals will be competitively reviewed and selected based on merit and alignment with the program goals.

A key requirement is cost sharing: applicants must provide at least a 35% non-federal match of the total project costs. This means the federal share can cover up to 65% of total costs, and the remaining 35% (or more) must come from non-federal sources, such as applicant funds, partner contributions, eligible in-kind support, or other non-federal funding streams, consistent with the terms in the official announcement. This match requirement is important for budgeting and partnership planning, since it effectively increases the total project size beyond the federal award amount and encourages co-investment and practical buy-in from the organizations involved.

Eligibility is summarized in the source data as "Others," which typically indicates that a range of entity types may be eligible depending on the detailed rules in Section III of the full funding opportunity announcement. The EPA also highlights a strong interest in broad participation, explicitly encouraging eligible applicants that may be underrepresented in federal funding conversations to apply, including minority serving institutions. This emphasis reflects an outreach and inclusion priority: the agency wants the applicant pool to include organizations and communities that have not historically been centered in environmental technology development and deployment efforts.

Administrative details in the listing show this opportunity is issued by the Environmental Protection Agency, with Funding Opportunity Number EPA G2024 ORD F1, under CFDA (now commonly referred to as Assistance Listing) 66.521, and categorized under the environment funding activity area. Overall, the opportunity is best understood as a targeted, applied research and development grant aimed at producing practical predictive models that make novel adsorbent fixed-bed treatment approaches easier to design, evaluate, and deploy for controlling emerging micropollutants in real water treatment settings.

• The Environmental Protection Agency in the environment sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "MODELS TO PREDICT THE REMOVAL OF EMERGING MICROPOLLUTANTS FROM WATER BY NOVEL ADSORBENTS IN FIXED-BED COLUMN PROCESSES" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 66.521.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-07-30.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-10-02. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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